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1891 Census – Clanna Falls House, nr Lydney

Upper class households are always interesting, mostly for the staff that they employed.  Here at Clanna Falls in Lydney (a modest country house in what was considered somewhat of a rural backwater compared to the rest of the country), the staff consisted of a butler, footman, cook/housekeeper, ladies’ maid, 3 housemaids, kitchen maid, scullery maid, nurse, governess, coachman and 3 grooms.  Of interest is that an adjacent property was utilised as servant’s quarters as it contained the coachman, Thomas Joseph and his family, and the three grooms.